[Kenwood] TS-870S Test Drive

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 20:42:19 -0500

Funny you got waited on there....I used to go every year on my annual trip
to Orlando....everyone had that "attitude" that they could care less if you
shopped there or not....stopped going the last few years but thought I'd
give it another try....was in there last week....the gal in there read a
book the entire 50-60 minutes I was there!!! Never once asked if there was
something she could help me with. I asked the other fellow about the
TS-480...he pointed to it on the shelf and "there it is but I don't know
much about it" and went about his business of sorting some type of
paperwork....the one guy that seemed to know his stuff was so busy answering
the phone he never could ask me if there was anything I needed....at least
in the Cleveland store you can get waited on.....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: [Kenwood] TS-870S Test Drive

> I was in AES in Orlando this morning and tried out a TS-870S.  It sounded
> pretty nice.  I am a TS-850S owner with two 500 Hz and one 270 Hz Kenwood
filter
> (s) installed.  I operate primarily CW.  The filtering on the 870 sounded
nice
> and adequate on CW although the band was in the pits.  AES reportedly had
me
> on their CC A4S but the signals seemed to be incredibly attenuated.  I
could
> nothing on 15 meters as well as 17 meters.  Those bands usually have SOME
> activity even though conditions are not good right now.  I guess it could
have been
> the radio or the antenna.  They couldn't find the manual but I was able to
> figure most of it out.  The say the coupon for the $300.00 discount is
good
> through the end of the month although the discounted price doesn't appear
on the
> HRO web site.  Not a bad deal for a radio that was pretty expensive in the
> beginning.
>
> BTW, a friend of mine works for HRO and he seems to like the Icom 756PROII
or
> whatever version is out there now.  I don't doubt his comments but Icom
> scares me to death after all the problems they have had with the 746PRO
and the
> 910H.  The SN on the 870 I played with was 9xxxxxx something or another.
>
> Steve, N4JQQ
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